Primitive Christian Worship / Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary

by James Endell Tyler

The whole world vies in love to the martyr,

Whose wonderful signs strike all with astonishment.

The water for Thomas five times changing colour,

Once was turned into milk, four times into blood.

At the shrine[⁸¹] of Thomas four times the light

came down,

And to the glory of the saint kindled the wax-tapers.

DO THOU BY THE BLOOD OF THOMAS, WHICH HE[⁸²]

SHED FOR THEE;

MAKE US, O CHRIST, ASCEND,